Appendicitis - Symptoms

eMedicineHealth appreciates your comment. Your comment may be displayed on the site and will always be published anonymously.

Tell us a bit about your background to make your comments more useful to other eMedicineHealth
users. (Optional)

Screen Name:
*

Gender of Patient:
Male
Female

Age Range of Patient:

I am a:
Patient
Caregiver

Enter your comment (required)

* Screen Name will appear next to the
published comment. Please do not include your full name or email address.

By submitting your comment, and other materials (collectively referred to as a "Submission")
to eMedicineHealth, you grant eMedicineHealth permission to use, copy, transmit,
publish, display, edit and modify your Submission in connection with its Web site.
eMedicineHealth will not pay you for your Submission. You represent that you have
all rights necessary for eMedicineHealth to use your Submission as set forth above.

Please keep these guidelines in mind when writing your comment:

Please make sure you address the question asked.

Due to the overwhelming number of comments received, not all comments will be published.

When selecting comments to publish, our staff will choose those that are educational
and complement the topic. Please try to stay on topic.

Your comment may be edited. We would typically edit comments to make them clearer
and more readable. We will remove personal information such as last names, email
and web addresses, and other potentially harmful information.

We will not notify you if your comment has been published. We suggest that you check
back on the topic article regularly.

We do not provide medical or healthcare advice, treatment, or diagnosis.

To prevent our systems from spam, please complete the following
prior to submitting your comment.

Please select the white square:

See what others are saying

Published: October 28

My son who was 15 at the time just didn't feel well. He still had an appetite but he was complaining of stomach pain. He woke up on a Friday morning still not feeling well. On Sunday I took him to Urgent Care and urine and blood tests came back negative and no fever. By Monday morning he was not any better so I called family physician who was out of town but the office said if it was appendicitis he would have to go to hospital anyway so to go there. All tests came back negative again and also the ultrasound showed no signs of appendicitis. ER doctor told us it was a virus and that he would be better in a couple of days. By this time I was at my wits end and didn't know what to do. Thankfully my physician’s nurse called me that afternoon and wanted to know how he was feeling and when I told her she put another doctor on the phone with me and he said to get back to the emergency room and we would be seen by the surgeon on call. Thank the Lord because he did one pressure test on stomach and said he was 99% sure he needed surgery. Sure enough he already had infection and appendix was removed..

Published: August 27

I developed symptoms of upper abdominal pain after dinner one evening. It was a gnawing, burning feeling, but also similar to nausea, however antacids didn't help. It lasted till about 4 a.m., then subsided. Three days later (after eating a small lunch), I again developed upper abdominal pain that would not go away. I thought it was possibly an ulcer or gallbladder problem. It never once hurt on my lower right side, though it was a little achy around my lower back area. I went to the emergency room and the doctor was convinced at first that it was an ulcer. Blood work came back fine, but none of the emergency treatments for ulcers helped the pain, which was becoming more intense by the hour. It reminded me of labor pains, but higher up in the abdomen. Finally, I had a CT scan which showed an inflamed appendix. My appendix was located high up in my abdomen and not in the normal place. Emergency laparoscopic surgery was performed and I actually felt 100% better after waking up in the recovery room. The doctor said I had a very “angry looking” appendix, but luckily it hadn't ruptured..